Landing gear for flying boats



Feb. 2.4. 1925 c. DORNIER umn'mc GEAR FOR FLYING nous Patented eb. 24, 1925. I

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Application flied ma 10.1904. semi mi. 719,309. I

' it known that-I, Cmvnltrs Donmnn, a string 'to the drawings, 1 is the boats 40 .0 all whom 2'3 myiitvncerh: a front elevation. e

citizen of Germany, residing atxFriedr-ichshull, is a wing extending across said hull hafen-on-the-Bodenseefi Germany have inand 3,3'are fins orstump wings extending '6 Vented certain newand useful Improvementsv laterally of the hulls bottom and being pro- Landing Gears for Flying Boats, of- 'vided with'cavities, wherein starting wheels which the following is a specification. 4 are mounted. The hulls bottom is pro- 15 My invention refers to flying machines vided with two steps 5 and. 6. Near the and more, especially to a flying boat'c'o'mlatter'step a spike 7 is mounted belowthe 10 prising znboats hull having-a stepped botbottom and in the-,middle lineq-o'f the ground, snow and ice, as required.

tom. It is; an object of. my inventiontochull; H I -provide a flyingboat of this kind with start-l a I wish it'gto be understood that I do not 0 ing and landing means whereby it is enabled desire tobe limited to the exact details of -to start from and land onwater or solid construction .shown and described, for ob vious modifications will occur to a person To this end the boats' hull is royided skilled in the art. with strong laterally extending fihs' near I claim the bottom, starting and landing means-such 1. A flying'boat comprising a boats hull;

as wheels being-mounted in cavities rovided, a wing mounted on said hull,- stron fins 7 in these fins and aIspike-lor the li e1 being 'or stump wings extending laterally '0 and,

provided at or near a bottom step. 7 near the bottom of said hull, a stepped bot-" 7 By these means the provision ofaseparate tom on said hull and a spike nears step 0 starting and landin carria e is avoided,- of said bottom. 3

whereby starting and lan 'ng on solid 2. Aflying boat comprising a bo'atshull,

ground is rendered easily possible,.with'out afwing mounted on said hull, strong fins increasing theweight of the craft. The fins or stump wings extending laterally of and v are strong enough to take up all shocks ne'ar'the bottom-of said. huIL-a, stepped hot. arising on landing and, at the same time, tomon said hull, a spike near a ste of said serve for insuring a good lateral stability bottom'and a wheelmounted in an projectof the craft when restin on the surface ing through a cavity provided in; each of the water. The wheels are preferably fin.

mounted in the fins. in an'easily disengage- Inte'stimo'ny whereof I aflix my signature.

able manner. v In the drawings afiixed to this specifica- OLAUDI'US DORNIER.

5 tion andforming part thereof a flying boat I embodying my invention is illustrated by Witnesses:

way 0 example, p 1 .Cmms Nnommn',

' Fig. 1 being a' side elevation-and LmorScHUrmssmj 

